Design and illustrate characters in Photoshop and animate them in After Effects.Plus get all the info you need to make an animated short. Instr. Craig Herron’s award winning shorts (A Fall From The Clouds and Freedom Dance) screened at Maryland and other fests. Note: No class Feb 6.

Screenwriters’ Tool Box: The Treatment, The Synopsis, and The Elevator Pitch

Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21

7-9pm. Adv reg (by Jan 14) $120, $90 mbrs. Late reg $150, $120 mbrs.

Get your project started! Flesh out your idea with the Treatment, boil it down to The Synopsis, then tighten it up even more to your 2 sentence Elevator Pitch.Topics include: Characterization: Archetypes, The Voice, 3-Act Dramatic Structure, The Film Outline.Bring your ideas!Instr Changa Bell runs Cell 54 Productions, LLC.

Tips, skills, and shortcuts to becoming your own production team. Topics include: basic shooting, prep, interview set ups, shooting for the edit, live event doc and sound. Instr. Tim Keating is a veteran cameraman.

CAmm Cage Orientation

Jan 21, Feb 6, 18,

Mar, 5, 17, Apr 2, 21

A required FREE workshop for anyone renting equipment from the CAmm Cage or using the Final Cut Pro suite. Equipment and reservations, check in, check out, and proper care. Email cage@creativealliance.org 7-8pm. FREE!

When is archival footage “fair use”? Does it make it okayif you manipulate the footage? What about music rights? Answers to legal and business questions from:entertainment attorney Scott Johnson, MD Film Office’s Jack Gerbes (Dir.) and Kathi Ash (Project Manager).

Got an idea for a CAmm workshop, or one for artists? Skills to share? A new short, feature, or concept for an evening program? An exhibit for the Amalie Rothschild Gallery?Entries considered for our May-Aug ‘08 season. Visit creativealliance.org & click “Booking and Submissions” or call 410-276-1651.

The rules all filmmakers should know!Absolute Independent Pictures’ Michelle Farrell walks through the production process: script, breakdown, locations, camera, sound, blocking & lighting.If you don’t know how to do it after this course - you weren’t paying attention! Michelle’s cinematography is distributed worldwide, she was DP for 8 features and TV including NBC, BET, MTV, A&E, and Fox.

Students! Submit your latest short (max 10 minutes) on DVD or VHS.Accepted films screen at The Patterson Fri Apr 25. All genres, all schools, all departments, all students encouraged! Audience and jury prizes!FREE to submit! Info: kristen@creativealliance.org.

Build a short film in one day!Manipulate natural objects digitally and learn technical skills along the way:photography, video, scanning, and audio recording.Finish in After Effects.Instr. Drury Bynum founded WorkerBee Creative LLC.